Wednesday, 26 May 2010

Being completely unable to keep a popular device in stock is a great
problem to have, I suppose, but considering that Verizon Wireless'
Lowell McAdam believes he could sell "twice" the number of Droid Incredibles
that he has available, that's got to be a bit of a bummer if you're one
of the company's bean counters (or a would-be buyer, for that matter).

In a talk at a Barclays Capital conference today, McAdam made it clear
that component shortages were to blame for the high-end Android
handset's general unavailability -- specifically the Samsung-sourced
AMOLED display, which is seeing duty in more phones all the time and will
likely be in short supply for a while yet.

At the present, new
buyers need to wait until at least mid-June to get their Droid
Incredible if they order online, and the Nexus
One's brief inventory situation is very likely related; since
Samsung is using a ton of AMOLED displays in its own devices, doesn't
this all seem like a conflict of interest?